Untitled
1916
oil
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1916 oil by Max Oppenheimer, depicting letter, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a tangle of sharp, dark lines and smudged gray shapes—almost like a city skyline collapsing in on itself. This painting was made in 1916, right in the middle of World War I. The chaos on the canvas feels like the artist’s response to the war’s confusion and fear. There’s no clear subject, just raw emotion in the brushstrokes. If you like how this feels, look up *impasto*—a technique where paint is laid on thickly, creating texture you can almost touch.
